My MagicMirror / Smart Display

Bolovai

@jste84 The module is called MMM-NewsFeedTicker. You need to download the logo of whatever news site you want and find the rss feed link. It comes with some logos but I had to get a few. Then you just add the module and it will cycle through all articles on a given site then swith to the next site. Its actually perfect as I wanted news updates similar to what you see on CNN so it doesnt take up too much screen real estate.

jste84

@Bolovai love this… Will definitely be using in my mirror.

Great job by the way. Looks amazing

Bolovai

@jste84 Cool thanks man. I am quite happy with it as well. :D

jste84

@Bolovai I’ve got the module working. I’m really new to this… When I’m reading the wiki. I look at the config and config sample… But I can’t see anything about the logo…

I’m using pages and interested in settingnup two different news feeds one for the BBC and one for sky sports and the way you have it configured is exactly how I’d like it to look.

Would love any help you can give

Bolovai

@jste84 Sure NP.

In the Readme in the “Other Info” section you should see this part describing this:

can add as many feeds as you like.
to change or add feedsources… you need to make sure the site can be linked

*** At this point, you need to download the website logo and place it in the pics folder within the
MMM-NewsFeedTicker directory. Then put the name of it in the config for ‘customLogo’
(see config example above)

So for example if you are adding Sky Sports, go to their site find a logo and save it as ‘skylogo.jpg’ or whatever the format it is. Then make sure that image is added to the pics folder and referenced in your module config. So for your entry for Sky Sports it would be something like this:

	{
		title: "Sky Sports",
		url: "http://www.XXXXXX.com", -> whatever the rss feed is for Sky Sports goes here.
		customLogo: "skysports.jpg"
	},

Hope that helps.

Bolovai

Hey Guys

I realized my pic was a crappy low quality image so I just took a screengrab from the Pi which shows the MM in all its glory. Also added the Moon Phases mod I was missing.

Enjoy:

https://postimg.cc/DJcbW1NT

jste84

@Bolovai thank you. I’ve got it up and running with both.

Changed the pics, speed and font size too.

I’ve not got it quite behaving how I want. As it seems to not show the whole RSS for each story. And once it competes a story rather than go on to the next it repeats the same one…

Thinking there must be a way to change that too.

cyberphox

@Bolovai A fellow Canuck! greetings from the east coast!

Bolovai

@cyberphox
Indeed good sir!! I wonder how many Canadians are on here.

Bolovai

@jste84 I believe thats an issue with the mod itself. It was already brought up as a bug to the developer. I see the same thing. Part of the description gets cutoff and it tends to repeat some headlines before switching to the next headline / source.